Hello everyone! I don’t know about you guys but I absolutely love getting book recommendations and I also love giving them, however, I feel I haven’t read enough books to truly give a lot of great recommendations. I still try my best though! I decided I would do underrated books which I judged by the amount of ratings they had on Goodreads, under 3,000.

I will link these books up to both their Goodreads pages as well as my full reviews if I have them!

This is such a cute little story about a clock mechanic who ends up falling in love with the clock tower’s clock spirit. Also they’re both boys so this book IS LGTB! It’s also steampunk which is really neat even though I thought the steampunk element could have been more prominent.

A SUPER intriguing YA mystery/thriller about a group of boys who go hunting in the woods and one of their friends is shot dead. They decide that they either all get off free or they all go down together, and the main character is a girl who works in the local law office and gets to help out on the case. LOTS of crazy twists and turns!

This is in a kind of dystopian society where people live in the Palace of Versailles like they did back in the 18th century. The main character resorts to selling the wealthy populace “glitter”, a drug, in order to get enough money to get out of there before she has to marry the King, who she witnessed murdering someone.

This one is probably my MOST recommended book on this list because it was absolutely fun and fantastic. It had great world building and also contained FOUR fairy tale retellings including Mulan, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Jane Austen’s Emma. I just got really attached to the characters and had such a fun time with it!

While this book had a few flaws I was willing to overlook it because this was a debut and I think this author has such great potential! The world building was pretty awesome and I absolutely loved that this was not only a diverse read but also had witches aka brujas! The magic was definitely the most fun part.

I’m a big YA horror fan and it’s always hard for me to find TRULY horrifying books that scare me, this is one of them! This is about a girl who tires to hide her out of wedlock pregnancy from her religious family while they travel to a new home on the prairie. That’s where everyone starts to get cabin fever…… or is it something else?

Another YA horror book but this one is a combination of horror and action/adventure. It’s definitely a really thrilling read about a group of kids who get trapped in an old underground French palace that’s filled with traps and something even more terrifying….

This is a YA mystery/thriller that’s so twisted and actually gets a little dark. You won’t see these twists coming guaranteed!

This one is about Callie and her best friend who told a lie about what they saw the night the friend’s cousin died and it haunts Callie to this day. She returns to the town and finds things that don’t add up and she needs to find the real killer soon….

An absolutely fantastic fantasy book with an even better magic system. I can’t recommend this book enough for fellow fantasy lovers!

This is about a girl who is raised to take the place of the current Queen who can use both types of ice and fire magic to protect the people and when the day comes where the Queen dies and the magic is supposed to go into her….it’s gone.

I have quite a few of these on my TBR already, so good to see my interest validated. I didn’t know about Glitter, and I’ve enjoyed Aprilynne Pike’s other list, so that’s being added to my TBR for sure.

Some underrated books for you to check out:

– Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Sci-Fi in Translation (I loved many of the stories in this book, and it’s absolute sacrilege to me that it only has 348 ratings on GR.)
– The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, by Cassandra Rose Clarke (2,145 ratings)
– All My Darling Daughters, by Fumi Yoshinaga (Another tragedy at 411 ratings. A beautiful manga about the interconnected lives of various women.)

Glad to hear you found one to add! If there are any books I like to push on people it’s underrated books, which I also love getting recs for as well!
Thank you so much for the recs too! I already had the Mad Scientist’s Daughter on my TBR so glad to hear you recommending it! I also added Invisible Planets because I adore sci-fi and a lot of the stories sounded interesting. I’m not too sure about All My Darling Daughters since I don’t read Manga but it sounds good so I’ll keep it in mind! 😁

Great post! I’ve been eyeing Labyrinth Lost for a while, I think I’ll have to bump it up! Same with Kingdom of Ash and Briars. And I’ve never heard of Timekeeper, but it is definitely going on my TBR! Love all the recs!

Thank you! All of these were ones I enjoyed so I hope you do as well! If I were going to pick my absolute favorite of all of these though it’d be Kingdom of Ash and Briars! So I really hope you like that one. 😁